 | John Hamilton Baker, Calgary Institute for the Humanities - History - 1981 - 350 pages
...wherein iniquity hath the upper hand, and all conditions and estates of men seek to live by their wits, and he is counted wisest that hath the deepest insight into the getting of gains: everything now that is found profitable is counted honest and lawful: and men are valued by... | |
 | Wendy Griswold - History - 1986 - 328 pages
...wherein iniquity hath the upper hand, and all conditions and estates of men seek to live by their wits, and he is counted wisest that hath the deepest insight into the getting of gains: every thing now that is found profitable is counted honest and lawful; and men are valued by... | |
 | Lawrence Manley - History - 1995 - 638 pages
...wittes, and he is counted wisest, that hath the deepest insight into the getting of gaines: euerything now that is found profitable, is counted honest and...men are valued by theyr wealth not by their vertues. (Defence, 11: 51) The cony-catching pamphlet is thus a kind of totalizing anthropology. It explores... | |
 | David Loewenstein, Janel M. Mueller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 1064 pages
...two worlds yielded satiric equation between capital and crime: 'all conditions of men seeke to Hue by their wittes, and he is counted wisest, that hath the deepest insight into the getting of gaines'(i 1:51). Preferring the clever deceptions of cony-catchers to the more vicious hypocrisies... | |
 | Bryan Reynolds - History - 2002 - 252 pages
...author, Cuthbert Cony-catcher, similarly emphasizes the importance of linguistic competence and wit: "Hee that cannot dissemble cannot liue, and men put...trades and occupations, but craftes and mysteries." 72 This view is further supported by John Taylor in his poem "A Bawd" (1630): "ABawd is a Logician,... | |
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by their wittes, and he is counted wisest, that hath the deepest insight into the getting of gaines: euery thing now that is found profitable, is counted honest and lawfull: and men are valued by theyr wealth, not by their vertues. Hee that cannot dissemble... 